[2ndDivisionVet]

OUCH!! And to think that Team Obama thought this would help them against Senator John McCain! Keep it up, boys, and McCain will win in a LANDSLIDE!! I'm starting to think that that AOL straw poll is predictive.

[goldstategop]

You do have to explain patriotism. Either you know it or people will know you don't feel at home with it - and if you have explain it - you aren't really comfortable in your skin as an American. I don't agree with McCain Heaven knows on a lot of things - but I feel compelled to set one thing straight: no one ever needs to doubt McCain's patriotism. His love for America is genuine and unbounded. Obama seems to have a problem with our country and all the people around him put qualifications on their love for it. For a patriot, the love of America is natural and that is the point of reverence for our country. Its one lost on the Left.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Ben Chad]

BTTT

[OKIEDOC]

I posted this on another thread but it bears repeating as I sit here getting angrier and angrier at these ArseClowns Messrs Clark, Webb, Rockafella, Harkin and Kerry.

Repeat:

“Guys like Webb, Kerry and Clark can talk about their prior valor in the foxholes and that is great and commendable but and there is a huge but..as so could General Benidict Arnold and Marshall Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain point to bravery and service to country.

Can you really trust a guy like Webb who says look at me I'm a good Republican and then acting through opportunism says hey look at me I'm now a good liberal Democrat who hates Republicans?

The answer should be absolutely not.

I would sooner trust Kim Jong ILL than a turn coat.

At least with Kim there's no deception factor to consider, you know he is lying.”

Further comment:

The destructive,calculating actions of these liberal Democrats though some might be considered hero's in times past, have shown their ignorance of what it takes to be a real hero in after military life.

My older brother is my hero, never told him that but he is.

My brother was always my hero for going to Nam 69-70 as a 30 year old 147 pound soaking wet Navy medic for the Marines and surviving.

Unlike Webb, Kerry and Clark he seldom talks about his time in country, being out numbered and over run the second night in a God forsaken village, the death of friends or how he became 100% diabled for life.

Just my lowly opinion but these left wing opportunist Democrats can go piss on an electric fence for all I care and take Obama with them.

Thanks for the opportunity to rant.

[Caipirabob]

I've seen several friends who are democrats react to this attack on McCain in anger against Obama. One was a fervent Hillary supporter and the other was uncommitted because while liberal, they hate all politicians (we've built a friendship on that - LOL!)

The friend I had at work who supported Obama has become silent altogether on politics. I think he's disgusted and doesn't want to hear anything about this. It's NOT GOOD for Obama and really makes him look like the first class scumbag that he truly is inside.

[fredhead]

One piece of incorrect info in this article:

John McCain did NOT fly a fighter jet over North Vietnam. He was not an F-4 Phantom pilot, he flew an A-4 Skyhawk; small, underpowered, underarmed, light bomber.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

McCain unlike Wesley Clark was never fired as Nato Commander.

http://wais.stanford.edu/Individuals/individual_generalclark.htm

http://www.militarycorruption.com/wesleyclark4.htm

http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/07/looking_at_wesley_clark.html

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=131_1200012467&c=1

[Randy Papadoo]

Jusst a homerun for Blankley! Excellent!

[Paine in the Neck]

Speichellecker = lick-spittle

I had to look it up.

[Christian4Bush]

+1

[Fundamentally Fair]

But Wes Clark is right. Merely being a war hero is not qualification for the presidency, although it is a hell of a start when compared with those of us who never served in uniform.

Correct. Military service is not a qualification for president. It is one factor that I consider.

The real issue here is how Senator McCain is using his service. He, unlike Kerry, uses it as a part of his resume. Here's the difference between Senator McCain and goofy J Effin Kerry: Senator McCain would never salute a crowd and report for duty.

[Enchante]

Re: Wesley Clark

IIRC, it was Clark who in the Democrat primaries for 2004 disparaged Jon Carry as merely a lieutenant??

Anyone else recall that moment? It seems that Clark’s proposed requirement for a future President should be that the candidate must have served in a strategic position of command, which conveniently rules out everyone in the current and recent field of candidates except...... Wesley Clark.